Need installation files for Maxtor hard drives

kaiotes

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My previous prob was i am unable to use my floppy drive.
thus i recently got new Hd,
maxtor
need to install it etc.
can't use floppy, need files so i can burn it on a cd to boot up and install cna't find it at maxtor's site.
anyone w/ other ideas? pls help
 

sohcrates

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are you looking for just a boot disk? or do you want to use maxtor's disk management software?

just go to bootdisk.com and you can download boot disks
 

kaiotes

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i just called maxtor,
they surprised me w/ their tech support, NO HOLD TIME AT all, well right now i'm using Fdisk and i tihnk its gonna get the HD installed.
 

kaiotes

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while in the process of formating the hd, i encoutnered stupid errors that forced me to restart the computer.
thus a prob of a new 'hard drive icon' appeared on the 'my computer screen' anyway to remove that?
screenshot

not supposed to have E drive.
i tried going into fdisk to del the third but it cna't be found
fdisk seems to be working now
 

sohcrates

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how big does windows report E: drive is?

obviously you made 3 partitions somehow. only way to delete it would be to re-fdisk
 

kaiotes

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yea thats wut i just did and now its been fixed :)
damn ME blue screens.
i'm goin w2k any day now w/ the added 40 gigs.
still need my floppy disk prob fixed though